War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but what about documentaries? Great war documentaries do not just recount battles ...

A few days ago, on May 8, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on European soil. However, many Nazi henchmen, including monsters like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele ...

The documentary concludes with a montage from Charlottesville’s white supremacist Unite the Right Rally, the killing of 11 Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Riefenstahl: a 'gripping and incrementally nauseating' documentary. Andres Veiel's nuanced film examines whether the controversial film director was complicit in Nazi war crimes .

Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi sympathies ran deeper than she admitted, a new documentary about the director argues. ... and who was shocked to learn of the full scale of Nazi atrocities after the war.

Culture Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi sympathies ran deeper than she admitted, a new documentary about the director argues The new documentary “Riefenstahl,” which premiered at the Venice Film ...

Leni Riefenstahl was one of the best documentary filmmakers of her time. She was also a favorite of Adolf Hitler, and her career was forever tainted by producing films for the Nazis, including ...

A Nazi art thief, UFOs and women at war are among the subjects covered in new factual shows being presented by PBS Distribution at Mip London, which takes place Feb. 23 to 27. Further titles will ...

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker's landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II.

Pride of our Nation. Pride of our Nation is an episode in The War, a documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.On June 6, 1944, D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in ...

He appeared as a Nazi youth in Frank Capra’s wartime propaganda documentary “Prelude to War” and was drafted into service in the Army in 1945, serving in the entertainment unit stationed in ...